Legal Counsel

Lead Corporate & Governance Matters: This means supporting on M&A, acquisitions, equity investments, employee share schemes, and core corporate governance.

Draft & Negotiate Commercial Contracts: This means  you’ll get to handle complex commercial agreements, including key partnerships, tech licensing, innovative trials, customer-facing terms, and vendor supply agreements.

Provide Pragmatic Advisory Support: We move fast as a business so our legal team has to move fast as well. You’ll offer fast, commercial advice across diverse day-to-day matters including data protection, IP management, competition, and general compliance.

Scale International Operations: You’ll support our global expansion efforts as we enter new international markets and establish new entities.

Manage External Counsel: You’ll work directly with our small panel of external law firms on high-value or specialist transactions, ensuring work aligns with our internal business goals.

Drive Business Strategy: You'll collaborate directly with senior business leaders across all functions, operating within our flat hierarchy. You love to work with all kinds of people - you’ve got no functional shoulder pads - it’s not ‘my team versus other teams’, it’s ‘we’re all working together to change the energy system globally, and I’ll lend anyone a hand’.

To be fully qualified UK lawyer, we’re most interested in the “right” person, but as a guide, around 2-4 years PQE experience.

You’ll need  solid founding in corporate and/or commercial law. In-house experience (or private practice with an in-house secondment) in a fast-paced environment is ideal.

You’ll need to be comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of projects with light supervision, taking the initiative to get involved in acquisition steps, and executing tasks independently.

You have a pragmatic, business-first approach to risk. You know how to unblock deals rather than just spot problems.

You'll need the ability to juggle competing deadlines, multi-task, and make firm decisions on legal queries in a fast-paced setting. You’re pretty good at managing your day, we’re only human, but generally you can juggle a few balls and focus on what’s important.

To be genuinely passionate for Octopus Energy’s mission and what we're doing here!